diff --git a/src/settings/plugins/ifcfg-rh/utils.c b/src/settings/plugins/ifcfg-rh/utils.c
index 8318a65dae..8ec7c0a131 100644
--- a/src/settings/plugins/ifcfg-rh/utils.c
+++ b/src/settings/plugins/ifcfg-rh/utils.c
@@ -37,7 +37,7 @@
 char *
 utils_single_quote_string (const char *str)
 {
-	static const char const drop_chars[] = "\r\n"; /* drop CR and LF */
+	static const char *drop_chars = "\r\n"; /* drop CR and LF */
 	static const char escape_char = '\\'; /* escape char is backslash */
 	static const char quote_char = '\'';  /* quote char is single quote */
 	size_t i, slen, j = 0;
diff --git a/src/settings/plugins/ifcfg-rh/writer.c b/src/settings/plugins/ifcfg-rh/writer.c
index 60af599bf1..acb19705c1 100644
--- a/src/settings/plugins/ifcfg-rh/writer.c
+++ b/src/settings/plugins/ifcfg-rh/writer.c
@@ -2502,7 +2502,6 @@ error:
 static char *
 escape_id (const char *id)
 {
-	static const char const as_dash[] = "\\][|/=()!";
 	char *escaped = g_strdup (id);
 	char *p = escaped;
 
@@ -2510,7 +2509,7 @@ escape_id (const char *id)
 	while (*p) {
 		if (*p == ' ')
 			*p = '_';
-		else if (strchr (as_dash, *p))
+		else if (strchr ("\\][|/=()!", *p))
 			*p = '-';
 		p++;
 	}